Okay, okay, it's a fool not to make money.
Refusing to complete pay-to-win tasks, Su Zhou had no choice but to abandon shortcuts and painstakingly manage the zoo.
Even with the sunshade, the animals' living environment didn't improve much. Su Zhou had never seen such a dilapidated zoo. The environment was so bad that it didn't look like a zoo at all, but rather like a breeding farm that kept breeding animals to make money. According to the forestry bureau, that relative should be a person who loves animals. How could he tolerate his private zoo, which he had worked so hard to open, becoming like this?
The only possibility is that this distant relative had been ill for a long time, and during that time, he was not in good enough condition to supervise the villagers, so the villagers took it for granted that they could eat and take things without permission.
Not only do they have to collect wages, they also have to steal the animals' feed.
The animal feed distributed by the system is of good quality and inexpensive. If you don't have enough, you can buy it directly from the store. The price is 100 gold coins per bag. As for the meat quality, the low-grade carnivore feed smells a bit like beef.
At such a reasonable price, Su Zhou seriously suspected that the high-quality Wagyu beef and marbled beef she had eaten at Japanese restaurants in the past were being ripped off.
They could have just robbed us, but instead they gave us a small piece of beef.
While craving animal feed, Su Zhou fed the lion, and the lion's powerful voice echoed in her mind.
If I could eat this kind of feed every day, I would gladly follow humans!
“My name is Su Zhou. Zhou is the 'zhou' in white porridge.” Su Zhou carried a plastic bucket filled with meat, her eyes crinkling as she said, word by word, “I know you pronounce it very well, but don’t call me that yet.”
One person after another, after hearing it so many times, it's really... enough to make you speechless.
When Su Zhou was born, the family's catering business was just starting out. Su Yunhai, who made his fortune by making nutritious porridge, named his only daughter Zhou. Not long after Su Zhou was born, the family's catering business gradually grew and became stronger. Su Yunhai and Wang Xingyue always felt that their daughter's birth brought good luck to the family, and they were very accommodating to Su Zhou's every wish.
"Excuse me, excuse me, let me clean your cages a bit first." Su Zhou, holding a broom, pinched her nose with one hand and entered the exhibition hall. The corners and edges were piled with feces, not to mention it was summer, so the smell evaporated even faster. She quickly finished cleaning. Fortunately, she was quite good at housework and had a bit of OCD. Before long, all the exhibition halls had been cleaned.
Currently, the known animals in the Wanling Regency include: five blue peacocks, one African lion, one chimpanzee, and one camel.
The exhibition halls were very close together. Su Zhou stood in front of them and felt like he was leading a large-scale military review.
"I see you're all golden, and you keep saying 'one person' so often, you seem quite domineering. In that case, your name will be 'President'." Su Zhou stood in front of the lion, her brows furrowed. After all, the African lion's habit of saying "one person" made her imagine the domineering CEOs in novels. Only, instead of "woman," they were human.
The African lion flicked its tail. In any case, having gained telepathic mastery, Su Zhou could now hear what they said. It was completely reciprocal. Moreover, Su Zhou was their provider, providing them with delicious food, which directly made her a new favorite among the animals.
"You're such a good boy, President." Su Zhou watched as the African lion regained some of its energy. Its golden fur shimmered in the sunlight and looked wonderful to the touch.
She usually enjoys watching live streams from a certain wildlife park on a certain pink website. The lions in the streams are very intelligent and human-like. Whenever Su Zhou feels a lot of mental stress, she will specifically watch cute pet videos.
She had only ever seen lions at the zoo or in videos before, and had never been so close to one as she was now.
The lion was lying on the ground, earnestly licking its thick paw pads. The contrast between its massive body and its adorable movements was striking. Su Zhou looked at the lion, and the urge to pet its fluffy fur outweighed her fear. She took a deep breath, stepped forward, and lowered her voice: "President, President, I'm your personal butler, Comrade Su. Can I touch your fur? Really, just once. If you agree, just nod; if you disagree, do a handstand split."
African lion: [...]
But considering the very fresh beef he had eaten in the last two days, Lion nodded in agreement.
Su Zhou was overjoyed. She no longer suppressed her feelings, opened the door and went inside. She squatted down, carefully reached out her hand, and touched it with great affection.
The fur of an African lion is not as soft and smooth as that of a cat; instead, it is rough and has a texture somewhat like a stiff-bristled toothbrush. Even so, this enormous creature obediently lies on the ground, allowing Su Zhou to do whatever she wants to it, and a surge of heroic spirit suddenly arises in her heart.
"Ahhh, my good baby, President, you're such a good baby!" Su Zhou exclaimed excitedly, her hands moving freely all over the lion's body. She even took photos, searching for the best angles.
Su Zhou had been eyeing the lion's massive paw pads for a long time, and now such a large and majestic lion lay before her. Su Zhou poked the dark brown paw pads with her finger, feeling that if those pads were meant to harm someone, a direct slap would definitely be quite powerful, enough to kill. Fortunately, the lion was now completely obedient to her like a kitten, even deliberately retracting its claws.
After touching it to her heart's content, Su Zhou felt as if her entire soul had been elevated.
Su Zhou retrieved the surveillance camera she had bought the night before from the trunk of the car. To prevent the camera from being too obvious, she had deliberately installed it in an inconspicuous place, but one that would definitely capture any trace of people coming or going. Using the trees for cover, Su Zhou had chosen an installation angle that would be almost undetectable. After installing the camera, she checked it on her phone and felt a little relieved to see that it could connect to the internet.
I casually switched to the app's background and a notification popped up.
You have named your animal, the African lion, "Lion".
Is it that intelligent?
Su Zhou scratched her head and then named the other animals. For example, the chimpanzee had particularly well-developed pectoral muscles and a defiant look in its eyes, so Su Zhou named it Ahei. The camel reminded her of the book "Camel Xiangzi" that she had studied in her textbooks. Indeed, the camel's condition was not much better than that of Camel Xiangzi. If she hadn't suddenly inherited this zoo, perhaps, given the camel's current condition, it wouldn't have lived this long.
As for the remaining five blue peacocks, in Su Zhou's eyes, they were really not very distinctive. So she just ranked them by number, from largest to smallest, one, two, three, four, and five, which was quite reasonable.
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